$47,500
Estimate: $25,000 - $40,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 7, 2014 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed and dated 'Milton Avery 1949' bottom right, oil on canvasboard
14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.7cm)
Provenance: Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Private Collection, Massachusetts.
NOTE:
The artist spent the summer of 1949 recovering from a heart attack suffered earlier in the year. A collector was kind enough to offer his country house in Millbrook, New York to the artist and his family for the summer as Milton recovered. Avery took a keen interest in the objects decorating the home and chose a select few to depict in "Grapes."
This work has been examined by The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation and will be accompanied by the Foundation's official letter.